A 27-year-old man who was arrested after applying to become a New Orleans police officer appeared in court in Chicago on Thursday to face charges that he brutally stabbed and bludgeoned his boss to death during an argument over his pay in 2016 on the city’s Southwest Side.

Justin Payne was denied bail on charges of first-degree murder and armed robbery in the death of 64-year-old Louis Pena, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County state’s attorney’s Office.

Pena, the owner of L&L Trucking at 4259 S. Keating Ave. in the Sleepy Hollow neighborhood, had employed Payne as a semitrailer driver, prosecutors said on Thursday.

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